*Hitchcock (2012) is a biographical film based on Stephen Rebello’s 1990 non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. The film tells the story of Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.
*Hitchcock’s signature features include intrigue, suspense, murder, romance, sexuality, dark humor, and a wrongly accused man.
*Hitchcock’s films often tell stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
*Hitchcock’s techniques include extreme close up shots to reveal a character’s emotions, point of view shots to expose what the character is seeing, and the Vertigo Effect, which is a shot in which the foreground remains in the same position while the background either shrinks or grows depending on the direction of the camera movement.
*Hitchcock’s films often employ one or more themes including intrigue, suspense, murder, romance, sexuality, dark humor, and a wrongly accused man.
*Hitchcock’s films include Jamaica Inn (1938-39), Rebecca (1939-40), The Birds (1962-63), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Family Plot (1976).